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1952 In Country Music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1952. Events * July 14 — ''The Eddy Arnold Show'', a brief summer replacement series, debuts on CBS-TV. * August 23 — Kitty Wells becomes the first female solo artist to score a No. 1 hit on the ''Billboard'' country charts with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." The song, an answer to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life," spends two weeks atop the chart and forever changes how women were seen, both in song and professionally. * November 22 — Nashville's first Disc Jockey Convention takes place. No dates * The life of Hank Williams continues its downward spiral. Even though he enjoys several major hits, his drug and alcohol problems ruin his marriage to Audrey (the divorce was finalized on May 29), and in October, he is fired from the Grand Ole Opry. Williams marries Billie Jean Jones Eshliman in October in New Orleans, Louisiana, and rejoins ''Louisiana Hayride'' about that same t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eddy Arnold Show
''The Eddy Arnold Show'' is the name of three similar United States, American network television summer variety show, variety programs during the 1950s hosted by Eddy Arnold and featuring popular music stars of the day. It was also the name of a radio program starring Arnold. CBS and NBC ''The Eddy Arnold Show'' debuted on CBS, CBS-TV on July 14, 1952 from New York City, as a live 15-minute summer replacement for ''The Perry Como Show#Television, The Perry Como Show'' on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights from 7:45–8 pm Eastern Time Zone, ET. Arnold's guitarists Hank Garland and Roy Wiggins (steel guitar) appeared. The program's final broadcast was August 22, 1952. From July 7 to October 1, 1953, NBC, NBC-TV carried ''The Eddy Arnold Show'' as a live 15-minute summer replacement for ''The Dinah Shore Show''. The program aired on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:30–7:45 pm ET, and featured Russ Case and the NBC Orchestra, as well as Garland and Wiggins. Guest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back Street Affair
"Back Street Affair" is a song written by country singer Billy Wallace and Nashville songwriter Jimmy Rule, and released by Wallace in April 1952. Background The song was first offered to Hank Williams, then the undisputed "King" of country music. He was singing it on his early morning radio shows and that's how Webb Pierce first heard it. Fred Rose, Hank's music publisher and unofficial manager wouldn't let Hank record it saying it was too risky, as it was a little risque for the time. Hank told Webb ..."I think anyone's got guts enough to record it has got themselves a number one hit." Webb Pierce recording In August 1952, Webb Pierce released his version. Pierce's song was his third straight number-one single on the C&W Best Seller charts, where it stayed at number one for two weeks. Answer record * In 1953, Kitty Wells, had a hit song with an answer record entitled, "Paying for That Back Street Affair" which reached number six on the C&W Best Seller charts. Cover versions * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby, We're Really In Love
"Baby, We're Really in Love" is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams and released on MGM Records. It peaked at number four on the ''Billboard'' country singles chart. It was recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville on July 25, 1951 with Fred Rose producing and backing from Don Helms (steel guitar), Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Sammy Pruett (lead guitar), Howard Watts (bass) and probably Jack Shook (rhythm guitar). It was his fourteenth Top 5 hit. Cover versions *Don Gibson recorded the song for RCA Records in 1962. *Hank Williams, Jr. recorded it as an overdubbed duet for his father on MGM in 1965. *Leona Williams cut the song for Hickory Records Hickory Records is an American record label founded in 1954 by Acuff-Rose Music, which operated the label up to 1979. Sony Music Publishing (then Sony/ATV) revived the label in 2007. Originally based in Nashville, and functioning as an independe .... *The Reckless Drifters (John Easdale and Christa Collins) re-recorded this song i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morgan (singer)
George Thomas Morgan (June 28, 1924 – July 7, 1975) was a mid-20th-century American country music singer. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and a former member of the Grand Ole Opry. He is best known for his 1949 hit single " Candy Kisses". He is the father of singer Lorrie Morgan, who is also a country music star. Biography Morgan was born to Zachariah "Zach" Morgan and Ethel Turner in Waverly, Tennessee, United States, but was raised in Barberton, Ohio. He was, along with a few other contemporaries (most notably Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves), referred to as a " country crooner;" his singing style being more similar to that of Bing Crosby or Perry Como than that of Ernest Tubb or Lefty Frizzell. Morgan was a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1948, and is best remembered for the Columbia Records song " Candy Kisses", which was a No. 1 hit on the '' Billboard'' country music chart for three weeks in 1949. He also had several hits based on a "rose" theme: " Roo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy Arnold
Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the ''Billboard'' country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music." Early years Arnold was born on May 15, 1918, on a farm near Henderson, Tennessee. His father, a sharecropper, played the fiddle, while his mother played guitar. Arnold's father died when he was just 11, forcing him to leave school and begin helping on the family farm. This led to him later gaining his nickname, the Tennessee Plowboy. Arnold attended Pinson High School in Pinson, Tennessee, where he played guitar for school functions and events. He quit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy On The Eyes
"Easy on the Eyes" is a 1952 single by Eddy Arnold, written by Arnold and songwriter Cy Coben. "Easy on the Eyes" was Eddy Arnold's forty-sixth entry on the Country & Western chart. The single went to number one on the Best Seller list with a total of fourteen weeks on the chart. Carly Simon's 1992 album '' This Is My Life'', soundtrack to the movie This is My Life, had a song on it titled "Easy on the Eyes" which is a different song, composed by Carly Simon and Andy Goldberg. See also * Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1952 Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1952 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' magazine ranking the year's top Country music, country and western records based on record sales and juke box plays. H ... References 1952 songs 1952 singles Eddy Arnold songs Songs written by Cy Coben Songs written by Eddy Arnold {{1950s-country-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" is a country song about a man away from home who is worried that his paramour may unwittingly stray from their relationship. The song was recorded in many different styles by many artists. It was written by Winston L. Moore (whose stage name was Slim Willet) and published in 1952. Perry Como's recording of the song became a No. 1 hit in both the US and UK. The title comes from the opening refrain: :''Don't let the stars get in your eyes,'' :''Don't let the moon break your heart.'' Chart performance The song was first recorded by Slim Willet and the Brush Cutters (4 Star 11614, reaching No. 1 in the ''Billboard'' country charts) and then by Ray Price ( Columbia 4-21025, reaching No. 4 in the Country charts). Skeets McDonald followed with a Western swing version, reaching No. 1 and staying on the Country charts for 18 weeks. His version was released by Capitol Records (catalog number 2216, with the flip side "Big Family Trouble"). Slim Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
